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...city's houses and monuments. Up to now, most preservation has been done by private organizations, many of them international. The British have refurbished the magnificent church of the Madonna dell'Orto; the French fixed up the church of Santa Maria della Salute; the Americans, the façade of the Cà d'Oro. Still, the job is far from finished; about another 200 palazzi, churches and buildings remain to be rescued. That badly needed work will soon start, when Italy at last moves to save one of man's unique and exquisite creations...
...movie of Robert Merle's political thriller The Day of the Dolphin, Scott is the scientist who becomes very friendly with a pair of Tursiops truncatus, the bottle-nosed mammals that may be the closest animal to man in intelligence. The scientist manages to get Bi and Fa, the cetaceans in his charge, to talk English, but what they tell him, alas, would be enough to confirm Scott's worst fears about...
...School of Medicine of the University of California's San Francisco campus, Father Al Jonsen is analyzing health policy issues and the moral desirability of such technical advances as the mechanical heart. From a base in Los Angeles, Fa ther Nick Weber, 33, and two companions carom round the country in a battered station wagon giving performances of the Royal Liechtenstein One-Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus, an amiable blend of circus acts and low-key morality plays. Weber and company live a frugal, catch-as-catch-can existence, begging meals and a place to sleep wherever they stop. A Rochester...
Later that day, Maya, Claude and Paloma drove to Vauvenargues and placed a large wreath of vivid flowers in the cemetery overlooking the chateau. "That was as close to our fa ther as we could get," Maya said. "It's sad. The whole situation is very delicate." The next day, Paulo's son Pablo, 24, of nearby Golfe-Juan, was reported in serious condition after drinking a bottle of chloric acid. According to his mother (who has long been separated from Paulo), Pablo had been despondent about being kept from seeing his grandfather. Others said he had also...
...inhabitants of THE HOT L BALTIMORE are transients, and so is their habitat. The E has dropped from the façade of the Hotel Baltimore, and the wreckers' ball awaits this seedy relic of past elegance. The lobby is a kind of limbo where the remaining tenants relate or display their past falls from grace. In The Time of Your Life, Saroyan gave us one whore with a heart of gold, the luminous Kitty Duval. Wilson is no piker. He gives us three: Martha (Trish Hawkins), April (Conchata Ferrell) and Suzy (Stephanie Gordon). Martha is a lost, innocent...